Watching the Star Trek: Prodigy pilot, I could not help but feel I had heard this story before. I mean this lovingly, as I would for the great sci-fi that manages to handshake lost millennia via the broad strokes of…
Let me paint for you, briefly, a portrait of a child. This child is young, no more than 10. Questions of identity, gender, and purpose are still well into his future. He spends most of his day failing: failing school,…
During the fall semester of 2017, I taught the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok” to my Developmental English class. Students’ skill levels vary in my class, but to generalize, they tend to have trouble with certain elements of…
I teach two sections of a developmental English course at a public community college in New York City. When students fail their reading and writing college entrance exams, they come to me. My class differs from traditional remedial courses in…
According to a recent company announcement, McFarlane Toys has been selected to produce the action figures, accessories, and role-play weapons for Star Trek: Discovery and other Star Trek properties. So what can we expect that to look like? The toy…
There’s a meme floating around the Internet that I like a lot. It has a picture of a braced-for-impact Captain Picard sitting in his chair on the Enterprise-E’s bridge. Above Picard’s head, words read, “How it feels waking up every…